Positive Approach to Life.
hello good afternoon to all of you
year 2020 is just a
juncture in the history of the mankind
this kind of crisis situation does not
come
every day once in a lifetime or maybe in
centuries
covet 19 has given us
the horrific stories of lockdown
industry meltdown overwhelming
health facilities and the worst of all
losing our loved one
these situations sometimes make us think
what are we going to do to deal with
this situation
and how are we going to come out of it
well before i start my talk
i will give a disclaimer that the
pictures and the images which i am going
to show
are from open source and the events
which i’m going to describe
has certain information held back only
the relevant part for the today’s
concept
context has been shared with you
coming back to my talk
the important question today is that
are we at the place at the zero
or we are the one are we doing something
nothing or something so let’s discuss
this out
i’m going to present to you an image
which depicts two personalities
one who made the world cry the other one
who made everybody laugh
so who you are
are you the zero or are you the one
are you the pessimistic or are you the
optimistic person
are you a threat or are you opportunity
well to get the right kind of answers to
our life
issues and the life positions that’s
here two three events
which i had to face in my life and what
certain lessons
which i carried with me
first of my story
this is about the survival instinct
year 1996 97
i was posted in a place which is a
beautiful
location called run of touch
and the hero of my story is suggesting
an operator by trade an excellent
sportsman
and a boxer but professionally arrogant
and sometimes crosses align with the
superiors
this incident happened when we were
supposed to carry out
a patrol in the area which is as seen
on your screen is surgery
a patrol of 17 people were tasked to
move
on this piece of land which is supposed
to be
a marshy land it has got a crest of salt
which at times as thin as paper
but at certain places it is seven to
eight feet in deep
the patrol was supposed to cross almost
60 kilometers in next 24 hours
to find out certain areas where the
enemy could infiltrate in our country
it started well all planning was done at
right places the patrol started in the
evening
went through certain kilometers and
started to realize
that this marshy land has started
sinking in
the place has a lot of slush
and mud beneath at places
even a vehicle can sink down at any
moment
when they started they realize that they
are going deeper and deeper into the
slush
and all health broke loose after the
midnight
when the seaside side flooded the area
and everybody was
inside the water up to their chest
height
they were spending the whole night
standing at one place
hoping the tide to recede next day
morning
when the sun rose the temperature
started climbing up
mind you this is the area where the
temperature shoots up to 52 degrees
because of the salt concentration
and dry sample conditions
people started getting dehydrated
they wanted to reach to the nearest land
point
the officer controlling the complete
patrol decided to reach to the nearest
point where they can be at comfort
but in the bargain he also started
having dehydration
well they tried their level best reached
to a point
in few hours they could hit a hard land
but by the time everybody was feeling
dehydrated
the complete equipment gone
rusted because of the high salt
concentration
and the communication failed because of
the water seeping into the equipment
the fada sugdev true to his nature
he started asking the question to reach
a place
where everybody can survive little they
knew
after that that they had already crossed
the international border
and they were sitting in the other
country
so we had to make quick decisions and
so they’ve requested the officer
to move the patrol to the closest indian
point
he also advised him how to make his
movement instead of walking
sliding onto the mushy land
so that they could reach to the next
point
the condition of every patrol member was
deteriorating fast
as the sun reached to the noon condition
almost everybody feeling unconscious
he took the lead tried to
his level best and even guided the
people
to survive for next 36 hours these
people have
crawled from one point to the other
making it possible to reach to the
nearest place where they could be
rescued
to survive they had to even drink their
own
rain because there was no fresh water
available
but with this effort we managed to
rescue all
15 people and they had to undergo
treatment for severe dehydration
the lesson i learned as a young captain
from this incident
was too the survival instinct of a man
who tried to raise his bar is always the
one
who makes people life easier happier
and try to make them comfort but on a
professional front
for me as an officer and a soldier the
lesson was
that every man has to be brought back
to its base alive and that i carried
as my responsibility
being the superior in the setup
second story this is a beautiful place
in 1999 2000 where i was located
called the heaven on earth but we’ve had
certain specific tasks to do the story
is about how
mental control can take over the muscle
memory
the hero of my story is a paratrooper
named surrender chetri he was a commando
very physically fit and extremely polite
we were to carry out a patrol and a
blocking of a
place where we heard from intelligence
reports
that they’re going to be terrorist
movement
to a particular village which happens to
be the home
of a most wanted terrorists of india
we set out our course to set up the
block
i was in the patrol
when we were about to reach that place
just two kilometers short of that
i realized that somebody was hitting my
back
it happened in last two three hundred
meters
technically we are supposed to keep a
space of five to six
steps behind so that nobody gets engaged
in one shot or a burst of fire
so realizing if something is a mess i
signal the trolls to stop and i turn
back
to my horror hitri was moving behind me
with his eyes closed
that was a very dangerous situation
because a person in sleep
if you get free suddenly awaken up he
can open the trigger
all her weapons were live and
ready to fire i didn’t say anything to
him
that point but the next day i confronted
when i asked him
if you were feeling so sleepy why you
have to go into patrol
with us i could have changed somebody
else
he politely said sir i was there in the
other operations the last 48 hours
i didn’t have the time but don’t worry
i have learned the art of walking with
my eyes closed
i can hear your footsteps and can follow
them i was bit surprised
but later on i realized that this habit
of a person
to control the body from his mind
is a special talent which he has
increased with the census
of hearing and mastered it let me tell
you
i try doing it with some success not for
walking sleep
but to wake myself up for the work
every day in the morning for last 25
years
i never used an alarm clock
i tried waking up at the prescribed time
that i think before sleep
and i do get up normally my time of
waking up
is prior to five o’clock where i have
two hours to myself
do my thinking my meditation and all of
the exercise before i take on
the daily job but this habit
of controlling the body and the muscle
is something which i realize and i’ve
learned from him
and i am thankful to that person
third story this is a time
when i was commanding the regiment
and as a yearly ritual we had to go for
a training exercise
and do the firing practices for our
crews
year 2013 or maybe
later part of the 12th we were at
deserts the condition of deserts
very hot dusty and at times
the sun is makes it difficult for you to
walk for long hours
the regiment was ready to fire i was at
control tower with the gunnery staff
and all other people who were to manage
the complete exercise
the tanks were lined up in front of the
tar
and they were to fire three rounds at
the different stages
engaging the targets allocated by us
from the car
while doing this exercise when we
started
everything was okay but within first
few rounds were fired i could hear from
my left flank
that some metal cracking sound
which made me believe that something has
gone wrong
i tried to see that area which was about
600 meters from me
could not make out anything because of
the dust kicked up
in the firing you can see the hormone of
a curtain gets
raised up when you fire such heavy
caliber ammunition
but the sound was something which was
making me worry
so i tried to check up on the radio from
the crews who were firing from the left
there was some kind of confusion i
couldn’t get a response
the gunnery officer was asked to hold
the fire
immediately
my hero david jagat
a gunnery instructor excellent trainer
and a very upfront person
before we could even control
the crews which were firing already and
someone
somebody to look at the tank i saw him
running towards the tank
with a fire extinguisher i realized
something is wrong which i could not
see from my position so i asked for
binoculars
and had a look at it so my horror the
tank was inflamed
before our ambulance and the fire tender
could reach that area
was already dashing towards that like
busan bolt
he moved on to the tank first thing he
did
to take out those three human beings
which are trapped inside that
the tank was full of smoke he got those
three people
out and also helped the unit douse the
fire
while doing so he put his life at risk
because there was a live ammunition
inside the tank
had the fire touched that it would have
been a catastrophic
people around it for hundreds of meters
would have
not survived now such a calamity and a
reaction
of a person did impress me
and since he was a second generation
soldier i have started with his father
also
i knew the traits were really passed on
in generations
i commended that boy and he was awarded
with
chief of army staff commendation card
but
this incident gave me a lesson and it’s
pertinent
in today’s environment that every life
matters
the boy didn’t take anybody’s direction
to do it it took the initiative
and got it done with the with sense of
responsibility
so with these three incidents which i
narrated i come back to my
first question who are you
are you the person who is
having this instinct to survive are you
the person
who has the mental control or are you
the person who cares for the life
but whatever may be your answers in your
mind
my reasoning is is what the hat you’re
wearing
is a hat which tells you and guide you
in your life
with that i sum up
my presentation today thank you very
much